Villa Palmieri, Fiesole

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Villa Palmieri is a patrician villa in Fiesole, central Italy, that overlooks Florence. The villa's gardens on slopes below the piazza S. Domenico of Fiesole are credited with being the paradisal setting for the frame story of Boccaccio's Decameron.

Villa Palmieri, 1744 engraving by Giuseppe Zocchi, with embellished decorations on garden facade

Villa Palmieri on a postcard from 1896.

Alexandre Dumas, père, Impressions de voyage - La villa Palmieri, 1899

Fiesole

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Fiesole is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times.

Aerial view of Piazza Mino, the main square of Fiesole

Excavation of the late-fourth-century BC Etruscan temple in Fiesole that later was used by the Romans

Partial restoration of one of the Roman structures in Fiesole

A fourteenth-century depiction from the Nuova Cronica showing the sacking of Fiesole in 1010, Chig.L.VIII.296 49v